WITH A DRAFT OF RESOLUTIONS OF THE CC RCP(b) AND THE COUNCIL OF LABOUR AND DEFENCE ON THE QUESTION OF S. RUTGERS' PROPOSALS

In my opinion, Rutgers' proposals cannot be accepted now, in their present form. But I would like to try this: force him to modify the group (Rutgers + Heyward + Calvert). And to modify the financial conditions. If we decide thus:

rejecting comrade Rutgers' proposals in their present form, i.e., the proposals of comrade Bogdanov and the members of the VSNKH presidium who voted with him,

the CC (and then the Council of Labour and Defence in the Soviet order) expresses the persistent wish that comrade Rutgers' group not regard this refusal as final, but rework their proposals on the following principles: a) a change in the composition of the group, the main group of initiators, in the sense of supplementing it with 5-8 prominent representatives of the American trade union movement or other workers' organizations; b) reduce the expenditures of our government to a maximum sum of 300,000 dollars*; c) reduce and clarify our expenditures in case of breach of contract

Lenin

Written between 12 and 15 October 1921
First published in 1959
in Lenin's Collection XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript
*—dollars. Ed.
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